ACC ~ Acts 7 v59

GOD CALLS THE PEOPLE THROUGH SIGNS. CHRYSOSTOM: This is the reason why his face was also glorified. For God who is merciful wished to make their plots the means of recalling them to himself. And look how many signs there came to be. “Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him,” again outside the city, as in the case of Christ. And in death itself, confession and preaching. “And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’” He did this to show them that he is not perishing and also to teach them. HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 18.

TO FALL IS TO RISE. ARATOR: O martyr, embark on struggles which will cause happy deaths, where punishment is glory and to fall is a rising, and by slaughter is born immortality embracing the rewards of everlasting life. Lo, to have merited thus to die was the beginning of a blessed life without end. ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 1.

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